linux-kernel - Re: current TIP/master doesn't build on SLES10

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Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:20:47 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
CC:	Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@....com>,
	"borislav.petkov@" <amd.com.borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Andreas Herrmann3 <Andreas.Herrmann3@....com>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: current TIP/master doesn't build on SLES10

On 09/28/2010 09:08 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 28.09.10 at 16:31, Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@....com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> compiling TIP/master (44bc8c4f500fce7263803b4acd016fa03cf8a91a) on
>> SLES10 fails with the following build error:
>>
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1181: Error: too many positional arguments
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1181: Error: too many positional arguments
>> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
>> make: *** [arch/x86] Error 2
>>
>> I've bisected it to commit df5d1874ce1a1f0e0eceff4fa3a9d45620243a68.
>>
>> Reverting it fixes the issue. 
>>
>> I know that this is caused by binutils 2.16.91.0.5 which is distributed
>> with SLES10.
> 
> I'm generally doing almost all of my work on SLE10, and have not run
> into this issue. Are you sure you've got it fully updated?
> 

It definitely sounds like the binutils 2.16 brainscrewage, perhaps one
of the question is for you: what version is on your system...

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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